Louis Andlauer

Louis Andlauer (7 September 1876[1][2][3] – 18 July 1915)[2] was a French composer and organist.

Biography

Born in Honfleur, the son of Auguste Andlauer, (pupil of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, and organist at Notre-Dame-des-Champs,[4][5]) Louis Andlauer won a First prize of organ in the classes of Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in 1901.[1] Louis Andlauer wrote organ and harmonium pieces, three masses, a cantata, religious motets and several songs.

Organist and director of music at the Parisian church of Saint-Éloi,[5] he was also a substitute for Louis Vierne from 1912 to 1914 at the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris. During the Great War he became a sergeant in the 28th Régiment d'infanterie territoriale, and was killed at the front line on 18 July 1915 at Marœuil (Pas-de-Calais).[2]

Bibliography

References
  1. Anne Bongrain (2012). Le Conservatoire national de musique et de déclamation 1900-1930. Documents historiques et administratifs (in French). Paris: Vrin. p. 469. ISBN 978-2-7116-2398-3.
  2. "ANDLAUER Louis Marie François, 17-09-1876 - Visionneuse - Mémoire des Hommes". www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. The Bibliothèque nationale de France mentions "1875-1915" BNF 160168852 and the notes in Les maîtres contemporains de l'orgue give "1877" (Joseph Joubert (abbot) (1912). Les maîtres contemporains de l'orgue (PDF) (in French). Paris: Senart. p. vol. 1, p. 1.).
  4. Joseph Joubert (1912). Les maîtres contemporains de l'orgue (PDF) (in French). Paris: Senart. p. vol. 1, p. 1.
  5. Rollin Smith (1999). Louis Vierne, Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral. New-York: Pendragon Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-1576471791.
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